IPredator was a

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offered with the stated goal of providing

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. It was co-founded by

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, as a response to the introduction of

IPRED Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (also known as "(IPR) Enforcement Directive" or "IPRED") is a European Union directive in the field of intelle ...

in Sweden, which will allow

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holders and

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officials to request personal information about

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suspects.

History

On 12 August 2009, beta testing invitations were sent out to those who entered their email addresses into the beta signup form. Additionally, the homepage has changed to reflect the beta. The service initially only used

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(supported natively in XP, Vista, Windows 7, OS X and

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through the use of PPTP-linux) to tunnel the connection through servers (vpn.ipredator.se which resolves to multiple IP addresses) located in Sweden. On September 14, 2009, IPredator "The Second Batch" became available for public consumption. On November 28, 2009, IPredator became publicly available and exited the beta stage. This was done in response to the FRA law coming into effect on December 1st, a law which would allow the FRA to intercept internet communications crossing the Swedish border. In concert, The Pirate Bay changed its logo on December 1, 2009, to an image depicting FRA as Glass Joe, the first and weakest opponent from the video game

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. The image linked to IPredator's website with the message "FRA vs IPredator - It's on!" OpenVPN support was added in August 2012. In July 2013,

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stopped providing payment services to IPredator. In addition, all the organization's funds had been frozen for up to 180 days. The account was reinstated the next month. Conversely paysafecard, to which many customers had switched while PayPal was unavailable, canceled support for iPredator. In October 2020, IPredator was merged into Njalla, a privacy-focused domain name and hosting service also founded by Sunde.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.ipredator.se/ The Pirate Bay Virtual private network services

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